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Wisp Hair Thin Smoke Straggled Cloud Tiny N Count

英语单词 wisp
英美音标 英 [wɪsp] 美 [wɪsp]
中文释义 n.小束;一缕;瘦小的人
v.扎成束;一缕缕地飘动
英语例句 (1) She cut a wisp of hair off.
(2) A wisp of hair straggled across her ear.
(3) Sometimes, a wisp of cloud comes with a spell of rain.
(4) She is a wisp of a girl.
中文例句 (1) 她剪掉了一束头发。
(2) 一束头发散落在她耳朵上。
(3) 有时,一片云采一片雨。
(4) 她是个纤弱的小姑娘。
vocabulary简明 A wisp is a thin bit or thread of something. Even after you put out a campfire, there may be little wisps of smoke in the air above it.
vocabulary扩展 Tiny pieces of hair escaping your ponytail are wisps, and tufts of clouds or fog are also wisps. A more figurative kind of wisp, like a wisp of memory or sadness, is just the barest snippet of emotion. A wisp of a child is a tiny girl or boy, and a wisp of hay is used to dry a horse — this is actually the original, 14th century meaning of wisp, related to the Swedish visp, "bundle of hay."
柯林斯解释
1
[N-COUNT 可数名词](毛发的)缕,绺,小把 A wisp of hair is a small, thin, untidy bunch of it.
  [usu N of n]
  • She smoothed away a wisp of hair from her eyes.

    她将眼睛上的一缕头发拨开。

2
[N-COUNT 可数名词](烟、云等的)缕 A wisp of something such as smoke or cloud is an amount of it in a long thin shape.
  [usu N of n]
  • A thin wisp of smoke straggled up through the trees.

    一缕轻烟在林间袅袅升起。

  • ...an occasional wisp of white cloud.

    偶尔出现的一缕白云

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